Category: Europe

The slow food movement, born out of Italy, centers itself around the idea of fulfillment and enjoyment through eating. The movement encourages family dinners and home cooked meals – to converse, to interact, to connect with people through food. This intimate, cultural tradition that brings people together is an art that is slowly dying. Similarly, the practice of yoga urges us to be present during … Continue reading Present Travel: Connecting to Your Experience

So the title of this blog is a bit misleading because when it’s your first time to Paris, you are the ultimate tourist – waiting in lines, being herded through in huge crowds as you pass through some of the most famous buildings, monuments and paintings in the world. Although Paris in July is a huge mess of touristic madness, at least we weren’t succumbed … Continue reading The Parisian Life

Doing some more catching up on my blog writing! During one of the last weekends in April, I took my first solo traveling trip, as well as had my first solo couch-surfing experience. And where may you ask was my normal partner-in-crime, Nazli? – oh, she was off gallivanting in Greece for 2 weeks so I figured, “Well I’m not going to stick around here!” (Ok, … Continue reading All Roads Lead to Rome

After a 3 week whirlwind of travel and a little break from my blog, I have finally wound down a bit and got back into the writing spirit! The end of April, my travel vagabunda Nazli and I headed off to the lovely far off lands of Portugal. Nazli fell-in-love with Portugal after her first trip back in February and this ended up being her … Continue reading Portugal: The Old Wooden Door to the Atlantic

“The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided – after weeks or months or sometimes years – that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at … Continue reading An American in Provence